With Older and Wider, she wanted to challenge herself with personal storytelling. That’s what I do.'” E Pablo Kosmicki/Shutterstock I thought, when I saw people like Mike Birbiglia, it was like, ‘Oh, I’m doing that. “I wasn’t getting 10 laughs a minute like Jim Gaffigan, but I was getting regular laughs. “I was tackling difficult subjects in my monologues, but I was still getting laughs,” Sweeney says of her shows. She admitted that she was a fan of standups but never really watched standup specials but when she watched these specials she learned that standup was different than she thought - and it was closer to what she was already doing with her monologues. She had been watching a lot of standup specials on Netflix from comedians like Mike Birbiglia and Jim Gaffigan. Should I really be trying to start this whole new thing of being a director? Maybe that’s too much.'” She told herself: “do what I know I can do, which is stage performance.” This was the initial spark for Older and Wider.Īs her third autobiographical monologue, Sweeney turned to standup to tell her stories. She continues, “I had kind of a come-to-Jesus moment where I thought, ‘Well, I’m getting older. “And then we couldn’t get the money together, and it was just devastating….it could have been great!” “I had decided to stop performing and I wanted to be a director, and I wrote a script, and I even had Connie Britton committed to getting a lead part in it,” Sweeney tells Deadline about the would-be film titled Fork (that is still sitting on a shelf) about marriage, monogamy and almost having an affair. However, it was her move back to Los Angeles that was the inspiration behind her new one-woman show. She can be seen in the upcoming Hulu show Shrill alongside SNLpeer Aidy Bryant and will appear on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which she says was “the most fun week” of her life. Sweeney moved back to Hollywood from Chicago to dive back in the biz - and she wasted no time in doing so. Heidi Gardner Is An 'SNL' Senior Now & She Loves It Justin Sutcliffe/Shutterstock She even stepped further away from the limelight to raise her adopted Chinese daughter named Mulan (we’ll get to that later as well) and live in suburbs of Chicago - something she goes into great detail and humor in her newest one-woman show Older and Widerwhich is currently playing at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles through Feb.
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But after a bout with cancer, and the loss of her brother who also had cancer, she ducked out of the spectacle of TV and film and opted to take the stage for autobiographical monologues.
She is best known for her androgynous character “Pat” (which we get into later) as well as various TV roles. Sweeney performed alongside some of the most notable names in the game on the stage at Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center: Chris Rock Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Tim Meadows, David Spade as well as the late greats Chris Farley and Phil Hartman. From 1990 to 1994, Julia Sweeney was part of one of the most remarkable Saturday Night Livecasts in the history of the iconic late-night comedy show.
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